Chapter 021: Idleness is idleness
As night falls, tonight's Lin Kee Seafood Restaurant is far more noisy than the hustle and bustle of the previous days.
The vast majority of people who come are not people who eat, but people who watch the excitement.
As for what is lively in the seafood restaurant, I heard that it is a chef from Jingzhou who wants to learn from Lin Ji.
"Since Your Excellency is not here to eat, please leave, and do not delay our business. "Shopkeeper Lin lost his beloved cat, and he was not in the mood to waste time with idle people.
The chef in Jingzhou is a young man, dressed in a long white robe, quite elegant, looking more like a scholar than a cook.
"Shopkeeper Lin is really a noble person, and he forgets things. Chef Jingzhou sat in the corner of the table steadily, "Five years ago, I was an apprentice under you, and you were jealous that I was more talented than your son, and you were afraid that your son would not be able to serve the public in the future, so you accused me of stealing things and expelled me from the restaurant." ”
"Now, I'm going to get back what I lost!"
Shopkeeper Lin seemed to remember something, and his expression was stunned: "Are you Ding Wuwei?"
At this moment, an adult man came running from the back kitchen: "Dad, is what Senior Brother Ding said true?"
This person is Xiao Lin, the only son of the shopkeeper Lin, who has learned all the skills of the shopkeeper Lin, and when the shopkeeper Lin retires in the future, this seafood restaurant will inevitably be inherited by Xiaolin.
Shopkeeper Lin was stunned, and said categorically: "Nonsense, nothing is true, Ding Wuwei, you get out of me, otherwise I will report to the official!"
However, Ding Wuwei was not afraid, and there was a hideous smile on the corner of his mouth: "Of course it's true, Senior Brother Xiaolin, if it weren't for your father secretly making trouble, otherwise, with your qualifications, how could you become a chef so quickly?
Especially the last sentence, Ding Wuwei almost shouted out.
It seems that in addition to being expelled from the division, there is also the hatred of taking his wife, and someone immediately shouted: "If it were me, I wouldn't be able to swallow this breath." ”
"If your son can't do it, he will expel his disciple from the school, a good means!"
Shopkeeper Lin was calm, but he ordered someone to report to the official, Xiao Lin was humiliated, and immediately said: "Senior Brother Ding, I was indeed inferior to you back then, but after all these years, I am no longer the same person I used to be." ”
"You said you didn't accept it, okay, I accept your challenge and convince you today!"
"You ......" Shopkeeper Lin wanted to stop it, but his son had already said it, and if he regretted it now, it would seem that the seafood restaurant was afraid of others.
Shopkeeper Lin had an idea: "It's okay to learn from cooking, but the rules of the method have to be talked about well, for example, the person who commented on it ......."
Shopkeeper Lin originally wanted to arrange someone he was familiar with as a comment, but Ding Wuwei had already seen through the routine and interrupted directly: "The person who reviews is all the diners present." Xiao Lin and I each cook a dish, and whoever supports more people in the dish wins!"
"Okay!" the onlookers were enthusiastic and agreed.
Shopkeeper Lin has a dark face, and it is not easy to overthrow it again.
"Also, if I win, this restaurant will be mine!" Ding Wuwei said.
Shopkeeper Lin smiled: "Why should I bet with you in the restaurant, and what can you come up with?"
Ding Wuwei smiled coldly and stretched out his white hands: "If I lose, chop off my hands and never cook." ”
"Heroic!"
"Awesome!" is the so-called not too big to watch the excitement, and they applauded one after another.
Shopkeeper Lin's face was heavy, and he wanted to pull the skin, but Xiao Lin couldn't hold it anymore, and agreed: "Senior Brother Ding, since you have to work hard, Senior Brother I won't keep my hands, whoever loses today will win, everyone will judge!"
"Okay, this Xiaolin is a man!"
"More than his old men. "Diners are cheering.
Shopkeeper Lin sighed, although his son's cooking skills have reached the heat, but he just can't hold his breath, so he has to beckon, and immediately clears the tables, chairs and benches in the restaurant and sets up the stove.
"I don't know what Senior Brother Lin is going to do?" Ding Wuwei asked.
"Fish. Kobayashi was not stupid and did not say the name of the specific dish in case he was targeted.
There are many ways to make fish, steaming, deep-frying, boiling, and even chopping into minced meat to cook porridge, but Kobayashi's best is boiled fish fillet.
This is one of the signature dishes of Lin Ji Seafood Restaurant, and it is a traditional famous dish in Yunjiang County.
Shopkeeper Lin guessed what his son was going to do, bowed slightly, and put his mind at ease.
Ding Wuwei's voice was a little ridiculous: "It's such a coincidence, I also want to make fish." ”
The two of them stopped talking, and turned their attention to the ingredients on the table.
Xiaolin's knife work is first-class, the cold iron kitchen knife seems to grow in the hand, the sword light and sword shadow, a grass carp is removed scales, internal organs, head and tail, and then with a kitchen knife to pull a belt, two large pieces of fish fillet are completely removed.
"Dragon Slayer Knife!" Aggressively, after a few knives, the fillet meat has been sliced into a thin and uniform fish fillet.
On Ding Wuwei's side, he also cleaned a grass carp, but when he was carrying the knife, it was completely different from Xiaolin.
"Heavenly Sword!" Ding Wuwei's knife technique is light, and the wheat ear flower knife is used, which means that the fish meat is cut like wheat ears, and it can't be done without years of hard work.
When Shopkeeper Lin saw this scene, his expression was slightly solemn.
Kobayashi began to marinate the fish, and at the same time, boiled a small pot of water, blanched the washed bean sprouts, and drained them.
Immediately stir-fry the seasoning, heavy oil, stir-fry the chili, onions, ginger, garlic, peppercorns, etc., add the head and tail fish steaks, add soy sauce, pepper, salt and other seasonings, and then add water to keep the heat high.
When the water is boiling, gently add the fish fillet, not too old to cook, not too raw, this needs the chef's experience to judge, after the pot is poured on top of the bean sprouts.
Sprinkle with peppercorns and chili peppers.
Take another pot, burn half a catty of oil, pour it on top of peppercorns and chili peppers, and all the aromas of boiled fish float out, and the diners smell their index fingers and swallow their saliva.
Almost at the same time, Ding Wuwei also made the fish, but he didn't cook the boiled fish.
The deep-fried fish is golden brown, the ears of wheat are open, and the color is bright red when poured with the sauce, which is really attractive.
"What kind of dish is this?" one diner asked.
"I've seen it in the book, it should be splendid fish, a famous dish in Jingzhou. A well-informed diner recognized it and commented, "Splendid fish is exquisite, delicate, non-senior chefs can't make this dish, Ding Wu tastes very high." ”
Perhaps because the people of Yunjiang County have seen too many boiled fish fillets, they are very surprised to see the practice of splendid fish, but it has attracted many eyes.
Shopkeeper Lin felt uncomfortable and ordered: "Since the dishes have been cooked, let's hurry up and taste them." ”
The rules of tasting are very simple, the diners present first receive a pair of chopsticks, try two dishes, and put the chopsticks next to the dish if they think it is delicious, and whoever gets the most chopsticks wins.
Everyone first tasted the boiled fish made by Xiaolin, and many diners present were old customers, and after eating, they all gave a thumbs up: "Tender but not rotten, full of color and flavor, Lao Lin, you have a successor!"
Shopkeeper Lin was slightly complacent and arched his hand.
A few old customers went to eat the splendid fish again, this splendid fish is full of red crystal, like a work of art, and for a while it was a little unbearable to destroy its form.
But this stimulates the sense of taste even more, and ruthlessly stretches out the chopsticks and gently clamps it, and a grain of spike meat is clamped up, and the aroma is overflowing.
When diners put the fish in their mouths, they thought that the red color would be spicy, but it was sweet and sour, sweet and fragrant, which made people have an endless aftertaste.
"Why is it sweet and sour?" said the diners, shocked.
Ding Wuwei has a winning attitude: "It's a tomato, after being boiled into a sauce, it has both the attractive color of red oil and the sweet and sour taste!"
The diners nodded their heads in disbelief, and if each person could only taste one chopstick, they would have eaten the whole fish.
After a moment's thought, the diner stopped his chopsticks next to the dish of Splendid Fish.
Shopkeeper Lin was stunned, and hurriedly said, "A few people, you just praised the boiled fish fillet for being delicious." ”
Several diners sighed: "Shopkeeper Lin, it's not that I don't want to help you, it's really that this splendid fish is so delicious, don't you believe you can try it?"
Shopkeeper Lin was not convinced, and also picked up a wisp of fish meat with chopsticks and put it in his mouth.
As a chef, Shopkeeper Lin is naturally also a gourmet, and he only needs to taste it to know which is superior and which is inferior.
Maybe the boiled fish fillet and the splendid fish have different emphasis, one is spicy and fragrant, the other is sweet and sour, it is difficult to compare them together, but from the sensory intuition, the splendid fish gives people a greater impact!
"Well, that's it. In the end, out of favoritism, the shopkeeper Lin still threw the chopsticks to the boiled fish fillet.
But this did not affect the overall situation, dozens of diners, dozens of pairs of chopsticks, boiled fish finally got only seven or eight pairs of chopsticks, and a stack of splendid fish has been piled up next to it.
"You've lost!" Ding Wuwei raised his head and smiled, the depression of all these years was finally vented.
Xiao Lin trembled and sat on the ground, he not only lost this game, but also proved that he has been operating in the dark over the years, including winning the position of chef and winning the little junior sister, which is not worthy of his name!
After Ding Wuwei smiled, he left a contemptuous look: "You clean up, I will take over the restaurant in an hour." ”
"You!" Shopkeeper Lin wanted to repay the debt, but with so many people with heads and faces to witness, if he relied on it, wouldn't it be a slap in the face of everyone, and he wouldn't want to mix it up in the future.
Thinking of the ancestral foundation smashed in his hands, Shopkeeper Lin fell directly to the ground unconscious.
Ding Wuwei walked out of Lin Ji, and the diners followed him, wanting to know what he was going to do next, but Ding Wuwei came to another restaurant, and also asked to learn from cooking, this time he took Lin Ji as a bet to win someone else's restaurant.
In this way, in less than an hour, several large restaurants on Beimen Road turned out to be in his pocket.
This big deal naturally attracted a wave of fanatical followers who wanted to see how Ding Wuwei won the entire Beimen Road.
Unexpectedly, Ding Wuwei said: "Qingzhou cuisine is spicy in addition to numbness, but in this way, Jingzhou cuisine is the king, from now on, Beimen Road in Yunjiang County only sells Jingzhou cuisine!"
Yunjiang County is from Qingzhou, and this immediately angered many diners, even if your dishes are cooked well, you can't slander Qingzhou dishes.
"Am I wrong? There is no one who can fight!" Ding Wuwei laughed.
The diners looked at each other, although they were angry, but it was also a fact that the famous restaurants in Yunjiang County were defeated by him, and if they wanted to eat authentic Qingzhou cuisine in the future, would they have to go to neighboring counties to eat?
"Wait, Yunjiang County hasn't lost yet, he hasn't beaten the otherworldly snack bar yet!"
Someone made a start, and the rest of the diners lit up.
Although the opening of the Otherworldly Snack Bar is still short and there are not many dishes, each dish is on the cutting edge, making people want to stop and have an endless aftertaste!
Ding Wuwei laughed heartily, Yunjiang County was too weak, and in the end, there was only one snack bar left to come out and carry the flag: "Okay, then I'll go to meet this so-called otherworldly snack bar!"
Anyway, being idle is idle, so let's have fun.